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UK Supreme Court enters Brexit drama

UK Supreme Court enters Brexit drama

Reuters 2019-09-17 10:41:13

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government will seek to persuade Britain’s top court this week that his decision to suspend parliament until shortly before the date for Brexit was not il...

Xi underlines security, openness in cyberspace

Xi underlines security, openness in cyberspace

Xinhua 2019-09-16 18:15:02

President Xi Jinping has highlighted the necessity for a cyberspace environment that is safe and manageable as well as open and innovative. Efforts should be made to raise people's sense of fulfillme...

HK needs stronger common interests

HK needs stronger common interests

Global Times 2019-09-16 17:50:29

The number of people participating in radical protests in Hong Kong has significantly dropped. However, few violent protesters still act rampantly. Because Hong Kong is at the crossroads of worsening...

Saudi oil attacks: Will fuel prices go up?

Saudi oil attacks: Will fuel prices go up?

BBC 2019-09-16 17:29:12

Saudi Arabia's state-owned company Aramco is the world's biggest oil producer, generating 10 per cent of the world's oil, but it is also one of the world's most profitable businesses. For a drone att...

Restore normal life in Kashmir, India's top court asks government

Restore normal life in Kashmir, India's top court asks government

-- 2019-09-16 17:01:47

India’s top court has asked the federal government of the country to restore normal life in Kashmir as soon as possible, as a partial shutdown of the disputed region entered its 42nd day. India...

US intelligence data 'shows Iran behind Saudi oil attacks'

US intelligence data 'shows Iran behind Saudi oil attacks'

BBC 2019-09-16 14:20:15

The United States has issued satellite images and cited intelligence to back its claim that Iran was behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies involvement in Saturday's air attacks, which w...

There will be no Rouhani-Trump meeting at UN: Iran

There will be no Rouhani-Trump meeting at UN: Iran

-- 2019-09-16 13:20:19

Iran said on Monday there would be no meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the United Nations, Iranian state television reported, after the White Hou...

Kim invites Trump to Pyongyang in new letter

Kim invites Trump to Pyongyang in new letter

-- 2019-09-16 12:52:14

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited US President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources. The letter, th...

Dozens feared dead in DR Congo boat accident

Dozens feared dead in DR Congo boat accident

-- 2019-09-16 12:24:48

At least 34 people are feared drowned after a boat sank on the River Congo. Police said 76 passengers were rescued from the whaleboat - a flat-bottomed vessel used to transport people on lakes and ri...

UK will reject Brexit delay, Johnson to tell Juncker

UK will reject Brexit delay, Johnson to tell Juncker

-- 2019-09-16 12:07:56

The UK is not prepared to postpone Brexit beyond the current 31 October deadline, Boris Johnson is to tell European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at talks on Monday. The lunchtime meeting...

Colombia plane crash kills seven

Colombia plane crash kills seven

Reuters 2019-09-16 11:30:45

A small plane crashed near the southwestern Colombian city of Popayan on Sunday (local time), killing seven of the nine passengers aboard, the city’s mayor and the country’s civil aviation...

CPC issues revised regulations on Party rules

CPC issues revised regulations on Party rules

Xinhua 2019-09-15 20:28:32

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has issued a set of revised and newly drafted regulations on the Party's rules and normative documents. The regulations include revised versions o...

Suu Kyi stripped off of honorary freedom award

Suu Kyi stripped off of honorary freedom award

-- 2019-09-15 18:18:37

The City of London Corporation in the United Kingdom has suspended its 2017 honorary freedom award bestowed on Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to Burmese local media. The Myanma...

US hawks’ ‘China threat’ paranoia knows no bounds

US hawks’ ‘China threat’ paranoia knows no bounds

Global Times 2019-09-15 18:03:34

Hawks in the US have found a convenient pretext to push the "China threat" propaganda in the garb of the Hong Kong protests. By ramping up anti-China hysteria, they are trying to tar the country's nam...

Iran dismisses US allegations over Saudi oil attacks

Iran dismisses US allegations over Saudi oil attacks

Reuters 2019-09-15 17:44:20

Iran dismissed accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that disrupted world oil production and warned on Sunday that US bases and aircraft carriers in the regio...

Kathmandu battles dengue as temperatures rise

Kathmandu battles dengue as temperatures rise

Reuters 2019-09-15 16:45:12

For Prabina Maharjan, it started with a headache, which then turned into fever and body pain. When she finally turned up at the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital a week ago, tests sho...

Voting begins in Tunisian presidential poll

Voting begins in Tunisian presidential poll

-- 2019-09-15 13:59:03

Tunisians began casting votes in an unpredictable presidential election on Sunday where there is no overwhelming front-runner, with the young democracy’s economic ills dominating the agenda. Po...

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross

-- 2019-09-15 12:48:18

The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under thei...

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities threaten price hikes

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities threaten price hikes

Reuters 2019-09-15 12:42:02

Saturday’s attacks on key Saudi Arabia processing plants will test the world’s ability to handle a supply crisis as it faces the temporary loss of more than 5 per cent of global supply fro...

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza killed in US raid, Trump says

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza killed in US raid, Trump says

-- 2019-09-15 11:39:09

Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation, President Donald Trump said on Saturd...

Drone attacks knock out half of Saudi Arabia's oil supply

Drone attacks knock out half of Saudi Arabia's oil supply

Reuters 2019-09-15 10:47:15

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom’s output, in a move exp...

China needs to remain steady to counter US conservatism

China needs to remain steady to counter US conservatism

Global 2019-09-14 17:37:23

Bill Gertz, editor of US conservative political journalism website The Washington Free Beacon and columnist for The Washington Times, recently published his new book Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communis...

3.9m in Mali need humanitarian aid: UN

3.9m in Mali need humanitarian aid: UN

Xinhua 2019-09-14 14:12:40

A surge in inter-communal violence is worsening humanitarian conditions in Mali and 3.9 million people there need humanitarian assistance, spokesman for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio G...

Fires from drone attacks on Aramco oil plants ‘under control’

Fires from drone attacks on Aramco oil plants ‘under control’

-- 2019-09-14 12:07:45

Drone attacks on two Saudi Aramco factories in Abqaiq and Khurais provinces on Saturday sparked fires that the state oil company brought under control, the Saudi interior ministry spokesman said witho...

Erdogan says will discuss buying US Patriot missiles with Trump

Erdogan says will discuss buying US Patriot missiles with Trump

-- 2019-09-14 10:46:09

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he will discuss buying US Patriot missiles with President Donald Trump this month, saying his personal bond with the US leader could overcome a crisis caused by A...

China to build warship for Thai navy

China to build warship for Thai navy

Global Times 2019-09-13 18:14:26

China and Thailand have signed a deal that will see a Chinese shipbuilding company build a Type 071E landing platform dock (LPD) warship for the Thai navy, a move which shows deepened arms trade coope...

Up to 50 dead in Congo train derailment

Up to 50 dead in Congo train derailment

Reuters 2019-09-13 13:21:17

Up to 50 people were killed when a cargo train derailed in Congo’s southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday, government officials said, though reports on casualties dif...

Democratic frontrunners spar over healthcare plans

Democratic frontrunners spar over healthcare plans

Reuters 2019-09-13 11:58:46

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden clashed with progressive challengers Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on healthcare in a debate on Thursday, defending Obamacare and pushing them to b...

Seven die in southeast Turkey blast

Seven die in southeast Turkey blast

-- 2019-09-13 10:58:10

At least seven people were killed and 10 were wounded in southeast Turkey when an improvised explosive placed on a road went off as a vehicle carrying villagers was passing. According to a governor&r...

Goodwill reciprocity needed to end trade war

Goodwill reciprocity needed to end trade war

Global Times 2019-09-12 19:09:12

US President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning Beijing time to "move the increased Tariffs on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods (25 per cent to 30 per cent), from October 1st to October 15th." T...